Quotes About Expression

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

Most people, using everything they have in real life, cannot take hold of you the way a talented writer can without even being there. Talent is the ability to mesmerize people when you are nowhere near. Talent is the ability to make something that is more stunning than human presence.

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic—I was the attic itself.

one of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved. as it happens, i come from a family where no one every hesitated to vent whatever petty grievances she might have, and it's like living in a war zone.

I was born with a mind that is compromised by preternatural unhappiness, and I might have died very young or done very little. Instead, I made a career out of my emotions.

No two people knit alike, look alike, think alike; why should their projects be alike? Your sweater should be like your own favorite original recipes - like nobody else's on earth. And a good thing too.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

I feel rather a fool writing down my thoughts

and if Meg or I said anything, she'd fall in a little rage, like a wet hen.

It demands that we give voice to their thoughts and feelings, even when their voices are nonverbal.

I used to have dreams in which I was overhearing conversations I had to program. Once, I had to program two people making love. In my dream they sweated and tumbled while I sat with a cramped hand writing code. The couple went from gentle caresses to ever-widening passions, and I despaired as I tried desperately to find a way to express the act of love in the C computer language.

The distance between what you say in a daydream and what you actually say to a superior at your place of work is proportional to the number of adults unsuccessfully seeking full-time employment.

enough to excite the artist in any man.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

If I won't be myself, who will?

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax.

One writes to make a home for oneself on paper, in time, in other's minds.

Para mí solo hay un infortunio: ¡tener que vivir y no poder crear!

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

I do but sing because I must,And pipe but as the linnets sing.